Screen.



PATENTED APR. 7, 1908.

BLGOODMAN.

SCREEN.

-APPLIOATION 11,313 SEPT. 13, 1907.

W0 m a m 6 5 BENEDICT GOODMAN, OFWALLAOE, KANSAS.

SCREEN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 7, 1908.

Application filed September 13, 1907. Serial No. 392,708.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENEDICT GOODMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at WVallace, in the county of \Vallace and State of Kansas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Screens; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in screenattachments and more particularly to that class adapted to be used inconnection with window and door screens and my object is to providemeans for reinforcing the parts of the frame and form pockets thereon.

A further object is to provide openings in the screen below the pockets,through which insects, such as flies, may pass to escape from the room.

Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter referred to and moreparticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are made a part of this application,Figure 1 is an elevation of the exterior of a screen. Fig. 2 is aninterior view of one corner of the screen, on an enlarged scale. tionalview as seen on line 33, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional view as seen online 44 Fig. 2. I

Referring to the drawings in which similar reference numerals designatecorresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 indicates a frame,which may be constructed in the usual or any preferred manner, to oneface of which is secured a screen 2, said screen being preferably formedof woven wire, and is secured to the frame by placing binding strips 3over the edges of the screen 2 and securing the strips to the frame.

In order to reinforce the parts of the frame and, at the same time,provide means for causing flies to pass through openings in the screen,I provide metallic plates 4, which are preferably secured at the cornersof the frame and across the central portion thereof, as best shown inFig. 1, the late at the upper end of the frame preferab y extending thefull width thereof and, if desired, said plates may be provided withvarious curvatures and indentations and the surfaces thereof may also beprovided with variously shaped im- Fig. 3 is a secplements or articles,as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

The plate at the upper end of the frame is also extended from the faceof the screen, so as to form a pocket and that portion of the screenbelow the plate is provided with a plurality of openings 5, throughwhich insects, such as flies may pass, and in order to prevent the fliesfrom entering the openings from the outside of the screen, each of theopenings is provided with a plurality of spurs 6, which radiate from thescreen and prevent insects from entering through the openings. The plate4 preferably secured in place by clamping the lateral edges thereofunder the screen-securing strips 3 and having, as in the case of thelike plate at the upper end of the screen-fran1e, its central portionoffset from the screen, with its lower and upper.edges preferably of thecurved or undulatory outline disclosed is also provided with a pluralityof openings 7, which are in registration with the openings 5 in thescreen, whereby when the flies on the inner surface of the screen, reachthe openings 5, the light entering through the openings 7 in the plate,induce the flies to pass through the openings 5 in the screen and escapeto the outer atmosphere through the openings 7.

As shown in Fig. 1, the plate 4, at the central portion of the frame, isalso provided with the openings 7, which are adapted to cooperate withthe openings 5, placed in the screen 2 at this point.

It is a well-known characteristic of a fly, or like insect, whenendeavoring to escape from a room, to alight upon a screen and traveltowards the upper end thereof and another characteristic is to passthrough the first opening encountered, through which light is shown andit will be readily seen that by providing the openings 5 in the screens,below the plates 4 and providing openings in the plates in registrationwith the openings in the screen, the light entering through the opening7 will be pronounced at this point, thereby inducing the flies to assthrough the openings 5 to the outside 0 the screen.

As before stated, the surface of the plate 4 may be provided withindentations to indicate various forms of tools or for various otherpurposes, the object in providing said characters on the plate being toprovide a unique form of advertising, as, for instance, when the screenis employed in connection with a hard-ware store, a number of thearticles being sold in the store may be shown on the plates and theedges of the plates may be provided with teeth to represent a saw andvarious other articles and, as the plates are preferably located on theouter face of the screen, the various characters shown thereon willimmediately attract the attention and especially so, if the articlesformed by the indentations are painted in a different color from theremainder of the plate.

It will further be seen that by providing the plate as shown, the partsof the frame will be greatly strengthened without materially adding tothe cost of the frame.

What I claim is:

A screen provided at its upper end and about centrally thereof withlines or rows of fly-exits and with oifset guard-plates upon its outsideand adapted to form outlet-cham bers opposite said fly-exits, the upperend guard-plate formed chamber only opening downwardly and the centralguard-plate formed chamber opening both upwardly and downwardly, saidguard plates each having a line or row of light-emitting openingsarranged opposite the aforesaid lines of flyexits.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

BENEDICT GOODMAN Witnesses:

MILES ORToN, THOS. L. CARNEY.

